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  11. Posted

    11 hours ago, tjlazer said:

    So wait you cut off the LEDs on the Ultra Satan?  Why not just leave them on?  It's not visible when the cover is installed.

     

    Right, they are not when the cover is closed, but as Remo said, you have to remove the 2 bottom LEDs to install a jumper

    block at J8 so that you can plug in Leech's awesome nuclear powered LED replacements. I'm assuming that no signal goes

    to J8 otherwise.

     

  12. Posted

    Okay, back on topic. I've got a complaint.  :)

     

    So...I'm sitting in front of my LED enhanced Mega STe now...

     

    On the left, a power on light that equals a solar flare in intensity, causing me to don sunglasses, 

     

    On the right, a HD access light that when it's flashing causes "Blinded by the Light" lyrics to run through my head,

     

    and then I access the floppy disk.... blink, blink....

     

    Yep, gonna have to find a way to get that floppy disk light to match the other two in all their glory.  :)

     

     

  15. Posted

    5 minutes ago, leech said:

    Nice!  But I upgraded to GURPS years ago, and mostly 3d print miniatures now instead of putting models together...

     

    Oh, awesome work on the UltraSatan mod too!  How do the multi-colored ones look on the hard drive?

     

    Yeah, the 3D stuff is great - you ever deal with HeroForge? Expensive but I like their stuff and they keep improving

    all the time. I got into the cardboard stock stuff (#110) and made some pretty cool things with it. I got really super

    creative at one point and built bases with thin sheet metal underneath. I then built my cardboard model pieces with

    magnets inside, so that you could "stick" them anywhere on the bases with nice stability. Honestly, I just enjoy

    building things and tinkering.

     

    I think most of us here have that in common, at least to some degree.  :)

     

    As far as the colors go, psychedelic baby, psychedelic.  :)

     

    Okay, off topic but here are a few examples of the D&D stuff (keep in mind, everything is #110 stock paper!) 

     

    1288953908_11-18-2017DDSessionPictures03.thumb.jpg.e7920e832393601c3a0b7378ad5351dc.jpg343244448_07292017DDSessionPictures01.thumb.jpg.183e8e1aa1065042f24cfe94710568fc.jpg1625980544_08122017DDsessionpictures11.thumb.jpg.e9447ec3fceba14e9d170e8d9a4864f1.jpg824659100_HC07252016Session_Picture01.thumb.jpg.851457a0105428ffb91c54dea98047f8.jpgImage010.thumb.jpg.ee34239c449051cff74d154ca698511e.jpgP4240034.thumb.JPG.318acc1a81148b1a88cb0425e83a4097.JPGP4240046.thumb.JPG.9fb9acb90aa3c1fc9e7788bd7456505f.JPG

  16. Posted

    Now. I've got a theoretical question for the experts following this

    message thread.

     

    I'm very happy with the results that we've gotten here so far.

     

    But...I'm an Atarian - I always want more and the best, at that.  :)

     

    So...is there any reason why the power LED on the top of the Ultrasatan

    boards couldn't be removed and then use that for one of Leech's most

    excellent LED's, while also using another LED off of J8 to show drive

    activity?

     

    I know, you're going to say but there's only one LED window on the 

    Mega STe's removable hard drive bay. 

     

    Right, but I examined a spare that I have, which is cracked but other

    wise okay, and that plastic window piece just pries right out.

     

    Why couldn't we match it up on the inside, using the 2nd one for

    placement, drawing an outline and making a hole (to match) for

    a second LED window? Then hook up the drive LED and the power

    LED to them.

     

    Boom - super nice light show for our Mega STe's.

     

    Thoughts?

     

  17. Posted

    Success. Without damaging the US board, searing my fingers, or burning the house

    down, I managed to install a 4 pin header in J8. Honestly though, without some of

    the better tools like the hot air stations 'n stuff, I gave up on removing the existing

    drive LED's at D11 and D13.

     

    For those of you who are sensitive to such things, spoiler alert - don't read this next

    part. I took one of my X-Acto knives (think super sharp scalpel) that I use when I

    build set models for D&D and simply cut them out. Solder is soft, after all.   :)

     

    <gasp> <horror><shocked looks> Yeah, yeah, I know - but it worked without too

    much effort and no damage to the board, which was the key part for me.

     

    Anyway, here's a few pics:

     

    US_header-LED-01.thumb.jpg.c87917e49f38886c8459b72b84e0fcf5.jpgUS_header-LED-02.thumb.jpg.a59dae4e18bf7c0f295c93a952e5d853.jpgUS_header-LED-03.thumb.jpg.ae5bab38bdc3532f411961d920efa6c6.jpg

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, zzip said:

    The guy who helped me set it up told me 32Mb was the max for all partitions,  so I guess I ended up having more partitions than I needed!   Ha!  oh well.    32mb seems small, but it was a decent size for an ST.

     

    I've ran into that belief a lot. PP's absolutely right though. I run an Atari ST based BBS that

    has been going since the early 90's and I've always had a large C partition. In fact, I'm using

    a 4 gig SCSI drive with something like 8 partitions, all just slightly under 512 megs, including

    the C drive - it's worked just fine all these years and is still going (HDDriver software).

     

    It really does depend on the TOS version/software. Lowest version I have on any of my Atari's

    is v1.04, so it's not an issue. You really don't want to run anything less than that, especially if

    you're using any mass storage.

     

    Glad you got everything working.  :)

     

  22. Posted

    Some last minute questions about using 2 cards.

     

    If you boot up with only your primary card, then

    insert a card into the 2nd slot, you can see the US

    flash and recognize it. Do you have to run anything

    to get TOS to know about it before you hit "Install

    Devices"?

     

    Also, lets say you boot up with your primary card

    and your 2nd card in the 2nd slot. Everything is

    recognized and working but if you take the 2nd

    card out, use it with Win7, Kubuntu, whatever to

    transfer files, then re-insert it into your US's 2nd

    slot, do you have to do anything to get TOS to

    acknowledge the media change?

     

    Typically, in the past, "ESC" with something like

    an open floppy window would update a disk change.

     

    Thanks all.

     

  23. Posted

    Okay, I think I've got a 2 gig card working as secondary now.

     

    I thought I had already prepped the first 2 gig card that I was

    using but when I went back to it and tried to re-partition it, it

    gave me this, "Administrative Error" and would not finish.

     

    I grabbed a different 2 gig card (these are all Sandisk brand, btw)

    and it partitioned out fine with no errors.

     

    I got the physical manual in today from Uwe Seimet (handy things,

    manuals :) ), and made a couple of changes. I turned on ACSI

    performance, which I'm sure has nothing to do with this.

     

    I also clicked 'Preserve Existing Partitions".

     

    Not sure what did what, but with the new/2nd card and these

    changes, when I hit "Install Devices" all partitions now pop up

    on my desktop and I can also use it with my Win7 box for transfer.

     

    Gonna label this card "File Taxi".  :)

     

    Thanks everyone, for all the help and information!

     

     

     

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